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►Copyright : © Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery ResearchThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.AbstractBackground:The main professional goal of nurses is to provide and improve human health. Medication errors are among the most common health threatening mistakes that affect patient care. Such mistakes are considered as a global problem which increases mortality rates, length of hospital stay, and related costs. This study was conducted to evaluate the types and causes of nursing medication errors.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009. A total number of 237 nurses were randomly selected from nurses working in Imam Khomeini Hospital (Tehran, Iran). They filled out a questionnaire including 10 items on demographic characteristics and 7 items about medication errors. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statist
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after blundering nurse administers TEN times drug overdose By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 09:58 GMT, 23 February 2011 25 View comments A mother-of-four http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1359778/Mother-dies-nurse-administers-TEN-times-prescribed-drug.html died after a nurse at a trouble-hit hospital trust gave her ten times the amount of drugs she was supposed to receive.Arsula Samson, 80, had a heart attack at Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham, after she was given an overdose of deadly potassium chloride. Arsula Samson at her daughter Louise Scragg's wedding: Mrs Samson died in hospital following medication error a nurse blunder Mrs Samson from Walsall, who had once been an extra in Dallas, was being treated for pneumonia in the critical care unit before she died on Mother's Day, March 14, last year. She was prescribed potassium chloride for low potassium levels. But staff nurse Lisa Sparrow wrongly pumped her with 50ml of the drug nurse medication error over half an hour instead of over five hours, the inquest heard. Instead of pressing the 10ml per hour button, the nurse admitted tapping in 100ml per hour on the drug infusion pump. The Sutton Coldfield hospital is run by Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, which has already been investigated over a series of fatal overdose blunders in the past five years. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Rude, arrogant, lazy... that's what patients think of NHS staff Share this article Share Staff nurse Sparrow signed out the medication from the controlled drug stock cupboard with staff nurse Susan Smith, as two people were supposed to administer and check the drug together to avoid any errors under hospital policy. But nurse Smith left nurse Sparrow to give the drug on her own when the error happened. The coroner said that nurse Sparrow's gross failure resulted in the overdose and was a direct cause for the death while a second failure was that nurse Smith did not oversee the drug be